[Dancecult-l] violence

[Adam Walker]

Wow! Cheers for letting us know that the event has been cancelled. I guess 
it's just a matter of waiting and seeing what the implications of this will 
be. Nimbin's Mardigrass is an institution, and the event, as well as 
standard Nimbin smoking practices, have been under real scrutiny since a few 
years ago when high positions in district law enforcement were restructured. 
  I was passing through there just when this happened and in the 2 hours 
that I was in the main street, a major fight broke out and I was literally 
accosted by locals who didn't want to sell me pot, but who were sussing out 
whether I was a cop or not (much, much more than normal). The paranonia set 
in motion by state goverments plan to stir things up was very real...and now 
it seems it's having effects on the well known ritual festival. Before this 
time it was such a dubby, peaceful, fun town, where  being able to buy smoke 
in the main street was a novelty for visitors, but the norm for the locals. 
Hmmm, interesting.

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>From: thleen <bigk at disinfo.net>
>To: Dancecult-l at listcultures.org
>Subject: Re: [Dancecult-l] violence
>Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 12:42:31 +1000
>
> > The other point I want to make is how EDMC's provoke state violence,
> > and the tactics that dance activists and corporations alike  adopt in
> > response to interventions, from legislation and ordinance to brutal
> > paramilitary actions. As Tobias mentioned, sometimes this can become
>
>The "teenager" is still public enemy #1. Ever since younger people gained 
>more
>economic power 50ish years ago, the state has battled all forms of youth
>gatherings. The state seems to conduct itself like a nasty bully.
>
>Nimbin, a quiet country town in Nth NSW, australia, has an annual hemp 
>festival
>- actually it's call a Cannabis Law Reform festival - and since 2000 there 
>has
>been a doof associated with the festival. This year it's not happening 
>because
>the council and cops won't issue the necessary permit. The doof is the
>sacrificial lamb, the whipping post for the hatred the state has towards 
>the
>hemp festival. It's harder to stop the main festival because up to 10,000
>people turn up for this annual gathering . . .
>
>The state seems determined to set up a situation where there will indeed be
>trouble - they're experts in the self fulfilling prophecy department. If 
>you
>remove the space where thousands of people can safely celebrate (after a
>midnight curfew in the town), then for sure the cops will be busting heads
>around midnight this saturday night . . . they will then use this as 
>ammunition
>to try and stop the hemp festival in the future . . .
>
>http://www.nimbinmardigrass.com/2007/doof.html
>http://www.nimbinmardigrass.com/2007/program07.html
>
>cheers, k
>
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